BFlooding in Gaza, and Europe is demanding Israel open every border crossing.
BAl Jazeera has it. Heavy rain hit displaced families in tent camps this week.
BConfirmed. The EU put out the call Saturday—immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access.
BPeople are living in water. You can't wait for a security review.
BIsrael's argument has always been that open crossings without screening let weapons through.
BI get that. But there's a difference between screening and sealing everything in a flood.
BFair. Though the EU statement comes easy; getting aid through needs Hamas and Egypt too.
BEvery side uses crossings as leverage. Meanwhile families are drowning in place.
BThe weather is turning a chronic crisis into an acute one.
BAnd that's why the EU is saying enough. It may not move Israel, but it matters.
BDifferent world entirely, but the same accountability question.
BWhat's that?
BReuters reports Sean Duffy says contractor L3Harris was switching telecom lines from copper to fiber.
BA routine upgrade caused the longest nationwide flight shutdown since nine-eleven?
BOne contractor, one remote site, no backup. The whole country grounded.
BSo is the failure the contractor's, or the FAA's for allowing a single point of failure?
BBoth. L3Harris should know better, but the FAA reportedly signed off on the plan.
BI keep hearing 'contractor error' after big outages, and no one loses a contract.
BSo you're saying private companies get a pass?
BNo, I'm saying the regulator is supposed to regulate. You can't outsource oversight.
BBut the contractor pulled the switch. The FAA wasn't in the room.
BThat's my point! Nobody at the FAA was watching a national network?
BThen why hire a defense contractor to run it?
BBecause we've decided private companies can do it cheaper. That's the real issue.
BCheap until flights stop. Passengers don't care whose fault it is at two a.m. in a terminal.
BNo argument. The lesson has to be redundancy, not blame shifting.
BI'll agree on redundancy. But I'd also drop a contract or two to send a signal.
BThen maybe the FAA will finally demand a backup before the switch, not after.
BSpeaking of single points of failure—there's a wild claim about Nvidia.
BSaw it. Al Jazeera posted claims that Jensen Huang has resigned, and the post claims analysts warn of a big drop.
BThat's a claim, not confirmed. No official word from Nvidia, no independent reporting yet.
BIf true, it's the biggest business story of the year. He's the face of the AI boom.
BExactly why I'd wait. A resignation rumor like that could spark a panic.
BBut it's also the kind of move that would leak. I'm not dismissing it.
BI think it's more likely someone misread a succession story. Until Nvidia speaks, it's noise.
BFine. Note it and move on. If it's true, the AI story changes overnight.
BMeanwhile, the Wall Street Journal says floating data-center projects are multiplying.
BBecause land power is expensive, and the ocean has cooling built in.
BStartups are testing barges full of servers anchored offshore.
BI think it's clever. Seawater cooling, movable capacity to where power is cheap.
BBut you also get storms, salt corrosion, and fiber cables that are a nightmare to repair.
BThat's the fight. The idea works on paper, but the sea is brutal on electronics.
BI'm more bullish. Data centers already use huge amounts of water. Next to the sea solves part of it.
BIt solves cooling, not maintenance, not security, not a hurricane hitting a barge.
BFair. And yet the announcements keep coming. Real money is chasing it.
BWhich means someone thinks the risk is manageable. That's worth watching.